got a early halloween scare

[odie]

yesterday i was working on the roadster, i noticed a local law car go by real slow and then shortly after come back by real slow and looking back up at the house. well i didn't think much about it and went in side to get something to drank, a short time later i hear a knock on the door. there was three officers asking who lives here, and over the radio i hear the info on my wifes car. i ask what i could do for them and the officer says we smell a meth lab. man i didn't know what to think (hell my blood ran cold), but i said no way not here. well after they walk around the yard and do all the stuff they do. one officer stayed with me while the other two where doing their round, my wife and grandaugther walk up, of course they want to know what is going on, and were told. the officer ask them if they could smell what they where smelling, my wife said no, and my grandaugther says yes, she goes it smells like when my poppie is cleaning car parts. i said if that is what your smelling? it's right here on the tail gate of my truck and there set a can of thrust starting fluid that i had used about a half can on cleaning some grease with and a rag that was soaked. this stuff is about 40 yards from the road and they smelled it. they told me to have a good day and sorry, and it was over for them but i was still shaken for awhile. i guess i need something else to cut grease from now on. yall have a safe halloween.

 

[putz]

Smells like a a little harassment. I know they have a job to do but that was ridiculous. Even brake clean has a funky smell that they wouldn't like but not so flammable.There are 2 types chlorinated and non chlorinated.They both work about same and clean oily parts really well and costs less and dries clean.

 

[tfeverfred]

On the flip side, they were doing thier job by checking something that seemed out of the ordinary to them. I would have thanked them for being on thier toes. Or nose. Now if they come back 3 or 4 more times, that would be harassment.

 

[Mike]

I side with Fred on this one. I would much rather have them verify there is no meth lab at my home, rather than miss the one next door, that is risking the lives of my family and the safety of my home.

You be careful using ether to clean parts. That stuff can sneak right up on you.

 

[Zack]

Having spent 14 years as a Texas Police Officer i have to say sometimes these things aren't always what they seem. It is always better to check and be wrong that not to have checked and should have. I have done similar things as well but i was always glad i followed my instincts. :good:

 

[odie]

i belive as long as they don't bother me for that again i'll never do anything about it because walker county alabama has alot of meth labs, we hear about them finding them all the time. i know one thing for sure is it scared the hell out of me. i look at the law officers as doing a job that i would never do, so my hat is off to them.

 

[T-Odd]

Odie, I'd probably have thanked them for at least trying to find the truth. That's exactly what they should be doing. The old house in the cove, we had what we thought were suspicious activity, turns out we were right. The guys got locked up not a month later. That house was right next door to us, in the middle of Bartlett, TN... not exactly where the cops would be looking.

 

[Mike]

When I was still preaching, I had a single mother with two small children (maybe aged 5 and 3, at the time) in my congregation. She lived in a 2nd floor apartment and it turned out the guys downstairs were cooking meth. And everyone in the town learned about it in one big bang. And a fire that destroyed the building. Jody and the bairns weren't at home at the time, which was a blessing, but she lost everything except the clothes on their backs.

I would much rather the authorities know I am not up to anything illegal, rather than have them suspecting my every move.

 

[ellis8500]

Some years ago I returned from visiting my parents in the Chicago area and was greeted by a police road block in my subdivision. They did let me go through to my house. The guy down and across the street from me had a meth lab in his garage. This was in a middle class neighborhood, two blocks from the high school and grade school. They can be anywhere. One thing the police look for is a house where the garage door is left open a bit all the time, a foot or so. Lets the heavier than air fumes out in the hopes that they don't explode.

 

[RPM]

Some years ago I returned from visiting my parents in the Chicago area and was greeted by a police road block in my subdivision. They did let me go through to my house. The guy down and across the street from me had a meth lab in his garage. This was in a middle class neighborhood, two blocks from the high school and grade school. They can be anywhere. One thing the police look for is a house where the garage door is left open a bit all the time, a foot or so. Lets the heavier than air fumes out in the hopes that they don't explode.

Oh no I close the shop doors all but about a foot, when it is windy and I am welding. The wind messes with the shielding gas.

 

[T-Odd]

Most of my neighbors leave their garage doors cracked for outside cats to come and go as they please.